Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami

Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) is an Islamic fundamentalist organization which has been active in Pakistan and Bangladesh since the 1990s. It was formed in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Akhtar during the Soviet-Afghan War, and it was the first Pakistani-based jihadist group. It limited its operations to fighting alongside the Mujahideen against the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, but it later attempted to export the jihad to Jammu and Kashmir in India. In 1992, Osama Bin Laden assisted HuJI with expanding into Bangladesh, and the group was strongly backed by the Taliban. In 2005, following a series of bombings, the group was banned by the Bangladeshi government.